The beautiful and the sublime : an analysis of these emotions and a determination of the objectivity of beauty

John Steinfort Kedney

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• Aesthetics

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1BEAUTIFULTHE
AND
THE SUBLIME
AND A DETERMINATIONANALYSIS OF THESE EMOTIONS
THE OFOF OBJECTIVITY
BEAUTY
BY
KEDNEYJOHN STE1NFORT
NEW YORK I
G. P. PUTNAM S SONS
l82 FIFTH AVENUE
1880BY G. P. PUTNAM SCOPYRIGHT, 1880, SONS.PREFACE.
author of theTHE of theobject following
a oftreatise has not been to furnish new manual
the science of but to re-discuss the fun^Esthetics,
damental which underlie it to reach
;questions
those of the science which must havepostulates
their in a Constructive Philosophy.justification
I have endeavored to no farther thanstray
thewas needful for immediate intomy purpose
or Thedomain of Science,Physical Metaphysics,
and have as far asavoided,ology, possible, using
their technical terms.
As for the and Ethic inPsychology implied
this I have to that are the resulttreatise, say they
of own I have receivedmy thinking. suggestions,
of I said I have verified inbut what havecourse,
own Ior am to and
;my thought, prepared justify
am under no which are notparticular obligations
herein expressed.
In within these it haskeeping strictly limits,
been not to make Allimpossible assumptions.
sciences are in their roots and nointerlaced, phi
can itself which is not exhaustive.losophy justify
I have endeavored to the ultimateapproach phi-iv Preface.
which I havefrom the /Esthetic position,losophy
whoto From those agreecarefully survey.sought
and ethime inwith definitions,my psychological
I for a fullcal hope sympathy.postulates,
avoided of theI have making application
I have reached to inresults particular questions
so far as was necesandArt, Art-criticism, except
for It has seemed to meillustration. alwayssary
treatises, thea method in most aestheticfaulty
of Artthe considerationmingling up prematurely
with the into the ofinvestigation prior questions
the Emotion of the and the definitionBeautiful,
of since these are as theBeauty ; pre-supposed
of the itself. I have enorigin Hence,art-impulse
deavored to this of sciencebranch thekeep pure.
I have been to of forindeed, music,obliged, speak
the reason that nature herself utters beausimple
tiful and the same mustsound, principle explain
that as music which is the ofexplains production
Art. It is obvious that if the results of workmy
are received as be carried into thetrue, they may
whole work of and criticism in theappreciation
several Arts of Landscape, Architecture, Sculpture,
andPainting, Music, Literature, Oratory, Poetry,
Histrionics.
I have more than a litavoided, too, entering,
into thetle, of /Esthetic for thequestion culture,
reason that that is a of the of culturepart question
in and aftergeneral ; the of ethicalonly question
culture has been can it find itssettled, just place,
and determining principle.